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Gananoque, ON · Private foundation

The Heller/Smith Family Foundation

We make gifts to qualified donees in the following areas: - health care including medical research and health care services such as home care and services to the blind.

C$154k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWKESBURY & DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
NOVA HUDSONC$25,000
HAMILTON FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESSC$10,000
UPPER CANADA DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$9,000
WATERLOO REGION DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$9,000
MOVEMBERC$500
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.3M · 18 repeat orgsC$282k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

C$2.3M
C$272k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+49%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • HD
    Hawkesbury & District General Hospital
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$900k · revenue +13%
  • QU
    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$578k · revenue +27%
  • NH
    NOVA HUDSON
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$225k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • LF
    LA FONDATION COLLÈGE BOURGETgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +66% · 25% of their budget
  • AC
    ASSOCIACION CENTRO CULTURAL COSTARRICENSE NORTEAMERICANO
    one grant, 2023 · C$38k
  • GB
    George Brown College Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue +119%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
La Fondation de l'Université Laval
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2
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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3
Fondation du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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4
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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5
La Fondation De L'hÔPital GÉNÉRal De MontrÉAl the MontrÉAl General Hospital Foundation

Distribute funds to the benefit of the montreal general hospital mcgill university health centre and affiliated entities of mcgill university academic health centre and other organizations of the quebec health network for equipment…

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6
Banting Discovery Foundation Fondation Banting pour la Découverte
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7
Fondation de l'hôpital Lasalle

Recueillir et administrer des fonds pour effectuer des dons en équipements à l'hôpital de lasalle afin de renouveler 'équipement médical spécialisé.

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8
Fondation De L'institut Universitaire En SantÉ Mentale De MontrÉAl
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9
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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10
Fondation du Cégep de Trois-Rivières
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11
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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12
La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/the Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation

The montreal children's hospital foundation is devoted to raising funds for health care research and teaching activities for children and pregnant women primarily for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre and qualified donees.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation Pearson pour l'Éducation / Pearson Educational Foundation and the most unlike its peers is La Sortie. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
26/29
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHawkesbury & District General Hospital — C$900,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON — C$578,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA HUDSON — C$225,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetStarlight Children's Foundation Canada — C$125,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLA FONDATION COLLÈGE BOURGET — C$100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetWaterloo Regional District School Board — C$60,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetUPPER CANADA DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEXPORAIL — C$55,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLa Sortie — C$45,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROYAL CONSERVATORY — C$34,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLaing House — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPearson Education Foundation — C$27,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetGeorge Brown College Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCNIB FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssiniboine Park Conservancy — C$24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLE PONT/BRIDGING — C$13,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetACTION DIGNITÉ LANAUDIÈRE — C$12,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFood4Kids Hamilton Halton Niagara — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEED NOVA SCOTIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOPPY TRUST FUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetHAMILTON FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIVE DIFFERENT — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEBERGEMENT D'URGENCE VIOLENCE CONJUGALE VAUDREUIL - SO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOVEMBER — C$4,027 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONTINUITÉ FAMILLE AUPRÈS DES DÉTENUES C.F.A.D. — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVAUDREUIL-SOULANGES PALLIATIVE CARE RESIDENCE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToronto General & Western Hospital Foundation — C$875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontreal Heart Institute Foundation — C$875 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

War Memorial Library …R. Howard Webster Fou…Indigo Love of Readin…Td Friends of the Env…CN Employees' and Pen…Jewish Community Foun…Charitable Gift Funds…Boston Pizza Foundati…Raymond James Canada …United Way Golden Hor…Canada GivesCharities Aid Foundat…
War Memorial Library Hudson HeightsQC10.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: War Memorial Library Hudson Heights · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Boston Pizza Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Canada Gives · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 842146086:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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